CFP: Jazz Music in African-American Literature and Poetry (3/17/06; 4/22/06)

Call for papers on jazz music in African-American literature and poetryfor the seventh annual graduate English conference entitledâ€œEncountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writingâ€ atSouthern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,April 22 from 9:00 a.m. â€" 4:30 p.m.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, interpretations ofliterary (and non-literary) texts, receptions of texts, adaptations oftexts, the cultural significance of various texts, intertextualitybetween jazz music and African-American literature/poetry, the originor evolution of varying texts, and the role of performance inAfrican-American literature/poetry.

Panels will be one and a half hours long. Presentations will be 15 â€"20 minutes long (papers should be 6 â€" 8 pages in length). A proposalfor a paper should consist of a 250 â€" 350 word abstract. Paperproposals must also include the paper title, and the name, day andevening phone numbers, fax number, e-mail address, surface mailaddress, and institutional affiliation of the presenter.

Please send submissions by March 17, 2006 via e-mail to:disarrod1_at_southernct.edu, either included in the body of the e-mailmessage or as an e-mail attachment (in Word DOC).